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It's optional. They've providing the ability for certain paranoid people to only get software from specific sources which are validated.
This isn't much different to the "official" package repositories for Linux.
If it ever becomes mandatory then you will have a point. But I would imagine that nobody would upgrade and it wouldn't be mandatory for long.
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It's optional. They've providing the ability for certain paranoid people to only get software from specific sources which are validated.
This isn't much different to the "official" package repositories for Linux.
If it ever becomes mandatory then you will have a point. But I would imagine that nobody would upgrade and it wouldn't be mandatory for long.